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Take-Two Settles Shareholder Lawsuit
Closing one of the last doors left over from last year’s EA takeover bid, Take-Two Interactive has entered into an agreement to settle a shareholder lawsuit stemming from their failure to consider EA’s offer. The lawsuit was filed by Prickett, Jones & Elliott on behalf of Take-Two shareholder Patrick Solomon on Friday, March 7th of…
By Mike Fahey Published April 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Ubisoft Promises Several DSi Games, Kicks Things Off With Cooking
My Healthy Cooking Coach will let gamers use the DSi’s camera to personalize their user profile and will come with ten more recipes than the DS version, Ubisoft said today. My Healthy Cooking Coach, available for the DS and DSi, includes more than 200 recipes and is due out this June. In the release Ubisoft…
By Brian Crecente Published April 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Midnight Club: Los Angeles Is Having A Pizza Party!!
When one thinks of South Central LA and illegal underground street racing, one also thinks “Pizza!” Logically, Rockstar Games and Pizza Hut have partnered to promote Midnight Club: Los Angeles with the power of pie. The Midnight Club: Los Angeles South Central Pizza Hut Showdown will give the budding diabetic an opportunity to enjoy an…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Tell The Xbox Live Team What You Think
The Xbox Live Team is assembling today for one of their regular meetings, and you can be there too, through the magic of Twitter. While you won’t be able to actually see and hear the secret things Major Nelson and his crew will be discussing, they’ll have a large screen in front of them with…
By Mike Fahey Published April 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
A Little Floor Play
There’s a pretty cool maze at Chicago’s Navy Pier that, deep within its bowels, includes a video game of sorts. About two-thirds of the way through Amazing Chicago’s Funhouse Maze is an interactive floor. In the room games are projected onto the floor that you can play. The loop of interactive videos includes a giant…
By Brian Crecente Published April 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Assassin’s Creed 2 Teased, Revealed Next Week
The official Assassin’s Creed web site gives us a brief taste of the second entry in the series and clues us in on when we can expect concrete details on Assassin’s Creed 2—next Thursday. The teaser consists of little more than a short Flash animation, rendered in a hand drawn style noticeably similar to that…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Fight Night 4 Is Realistically Slimy
The new physics engine for EA’s Fight Night Round 4 brings you closer than ever to the true experience of having your head sliding against a large sweaty man’s armpit. It’s all well and good when demonstrating boxing with a bald guy. What I was to see is real-time hair deformation as it slides underneath…
By Mike Fahey Published April 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Zorro Finally Destined For The Wii
After teasing us mercilessly in 2007 with the ability to slash Zs with our Wii remotes, 505 is finally ready to release The Destiny of Zorro this spring. First announced in February of 2007, a splash of screenshots and a promised 2007 release was all we saw of The Destiny of Zorro. Now, more than…
By Mike Fahey Published April 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Greg Bear Penning Halo Forerunner Trilogy
Noted science fiction author Greg Bear takes a stab at the earliest days of the Halo universe with The Forerunner Trilogy, traveling 100,000 years into the series’ past. A mysterious ancient race worshiped by the Covenant as gods, the Forerunners wiped themselves off the face of the universe to help stem the tide of the…
By Mike Fahey Published April 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
A Claim to Fame, in the Dodge City of Video Games
These days, a big weekend in Ottumwa, Iowa, population 26,000 or so, is defined by the line out the door at its Applebee’s. On its chamber of commerce’s list of 101 things to do there, you’ll see attractions like genealogy research, pumpkin picking, and a tour of the John Deere factory. The same as most…
By Owen Good Published April 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
These Kids Are Having Too Much Fun Playing Klonoa
Namco Bandai‘s TV spot for the upcoming Wii remake of Klonoa features two children getting much more out of the game than you and I ever could. Now don’t get me wrong…I love me some Klonoa. It’s right up there with Pandemonium on my list of 2.5D rail platformers. I just don’t remember any moments…
By Mike Fahey Published April 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories Re-Does Wii, PS2, And PSP
While Nintendo Power managed the official announcement of the Wii remake of the original Silent Hill as Shattered Memories, Konami handles announcing it for PlayStation 2 and PSP. As mentioned in McWhertor’s post on the Wii version, Silent Hill: Shattered Memories is a retelling of the original Silent Hill game, with the objectives shuffled about…
By Mike Fahey Published April 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Wolfenstein’s Heavy Trooper
This video gives us a glimpse of the heavy trooper found in upcoming shooter Wolfenstein. The video also gives you a glimpse of the heavy trooper’s disintegration gun, though you don’t get to see all of those hats falling to the ground that so amused me during my demo of the game last month.
By Brian Crecente Published April 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
See The Future With New Fable II DLC In May
The future of the Fable franchise is teased next month in See the Future, the second round of downloable content for Fable II. New creatures, new quests, new events, and legendary artifacts will be yours to discover this May in the See the Future DLC for Fable II. Transform your canine companion into new breeds…
By Mike Fahey Published April 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Resident Evil 5 Versus Mode For Sale Tomorrow
Now that you’ve played Resident Evil 5 with each other, it’s time to play against each other, as Capcom puts Versus mode up for sale tomorrow on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The Versus mode contains two different game types. Slayer’s Rule sees players trying to down the most Majinis within the time limit,…
By Mike Fahey Published April 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
How To Waste $5 on the Xbox 360 in Chicago
This weekend the GAME ON! This Spring We’re All Fun and Games event kicked off at Chicago’s Navy Pier. The idea was to pack the pier’s Crystal Gardens with Xbox 360s and let people play games on the system to their heart’s content. They also decided to run a Guitar Hero World Tour tournament. Well,…
By Brian Crecente Published April 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Stargate Producer On Stargate Worlds: “It’s A Terrible Shame”
Stargate executive producer Brad Wright echoes the feelings of thousands of fans, calling the delay of Cheyenne Mountain’s massively multiplayer Stargate Worlds “a terrible shame.” Fans were ecstatic when the game was first announced in March of 2007, but since then Cheyenne Mountain have run into huge financial issues, to the point where employees went…
By Mike Fahey Published April 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Weekly Nintendo Download: The DSi Invasion
It’s a brand new week and everything has change, as DSiWare joins the weekly Nintendo update, with 6 tiny titles joining Equilibrio on WiiWare and Uncharted Waters: New Horizons on the Virtual Console. While the ball puzzler Equilibrio from DK-Games (500 points) sounds inviting, and the swashbuckling exploration of Uncharted Waters: New Horizons for the…
By Mike Fahey Published April 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Cops Crackdown On Bashcraft, North Korean Missiles Fly Overhead
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft What a weekend! North Korea launched something into the air, parts of it fell into the Sea of Japan, and newscasters got panicky. At around 11:30am North Korea fired a missile over Japan — the people of Akita Prefecture were warned that it actually might hit them. There were public service…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 6, 2009
